Proceedings of the

Louisiana-Mississippi Section

of the

Mathematical Association of America

Spring 2002

Research | Pedagogy | Student Papers | Special Presentations

Research

• Quadrature approaches to the solution of two point boundary value problems, Seth F. Oppenheimer and Mohsen Razzaghi (Mississippi State University)
• A New Representation of the Dihedral Groups, Chris G. Devillier (Southeastern Louisiana University)
• Sums of Powers of Integers, Julien Doucet (Louisiana State University in Shreveport) and A.Saleh-Jahromi (Loyola Marymount University)

Teaching

• Attitudes in Teacher Preparation Classes, Bonnie Oppenheimer (Mississippi University for Women)
• An Examination of Student Mistakes in Setting Up Hypothesis Testing Problems, W. Conway Link (Louisiana State University in Shreveport)
• A Comparative Analysis of Mathematics Self-Efficacy of Developmental and Non-Developmental Freshman Mathematics Students, Dr. Michael Hall (Arkansas State University) and Dr. Michael Ponton (University of Mississippi)
• The Krewe of Caesar Problem, David Gurney (Southeastern Louisiana University)

Student Papers

• The Distance Between a Point and a Line Using Different Norms, Cadence Lee Ellington (Southeastern Louisiana University), Faculty Advisor: Dennis I. Merino